{"id":10458,"date":"2018-08-31T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T19:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=10458"},"modified":"2018-09-11T21:56:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T20:56:06","slug":"daily_1348_-_office_dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/08\/31\/daily_1348_-_office_dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1348 &#8211; office dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1348_dog.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nSome days we have an office dog. He comes in with one of the developers, occasionally, and stays in the office during the day.<\/p>\n<p>A small terrier of some sort, he is small and cute and very non-threatening. He is very well-behaved, quiet and discreet. He is guardedly friendly without ever being intrusive. He goes from desk to desk and sits down and waits for contact. If I stop petting him before he feels done, he sidles a bit closer, but never actually touches me himself.<\/p>\n<p>After repeated visits and cautiously getting acquainted, we&#8217;ve gotten to the point in our relationship where he lets me move him and lift him up. The thing is, he approaches me from the right, because there is a wall on my left, but I kind of need my right hand for working. I like scratching him but I do need to keep working as well. I can now lift him up so he sits on my lap and gets scratched while I work.<\/p>\n<p>He is very good for general developer well-being, and I wish he was here more often. Some people have service dogs; hospitals have service animals. I&#8217;m pretty sure that office workers would be happier at work if offices had well-behaved office dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days we have an office dog. He comes in with one of the developers, occasionally, and stays in the office during the day. A small terrier of some sort, he is small and cute and very non-threatening. He is very well-behaved, quiet and discreet. He is guardedly friendly without ever being intrusive. He goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10463,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions\/10463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}